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Alameda County, CA June 3, 2008 Election
Smart Voter Ian Overton

Candidate for
Member, Democratic Party Central Committee; County of Alameda; Assembly District 16

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Biographical Highlights
  • Occupation: Political Consultant
  • Eagle Scout w/ Silver Palms, Boy Scouts of America; 1999
  • Member of the Franklin Roosevelt Legacy Democratic Club, Environmental Caucus
  • Organizer with LaRouche Political Action Committee since 2004 to stop privatization of Social Security, impeachment of Dick Cheney,
  • national legislation to re-tool auto sector to create productive manufacturing jobs, currently organizing national legislation to freeze foreclosures
  • and protect essential banking functions from insolvency and closure
  • Working internationally to stop "free-trade globalization" and reinstitute a fixed rate, "fair trade" world economic system
Top Priorities if Elected
  • Reviving the "New Deal" tradition of FDR as the dominant policy platform of the Democratic Party
  • Turning the Alameda Central Committee into a vehicle for outreach to the lower 80% income brackets
  • Focus especially on public dialogue with the generation from 18-35 years old, to recruit them to the FDR tradition in the Democratic Party
Key Endorsements
  • Amelia Boynton Robinson, Civil Rights Movement leader
  • Quincy O'Neal, President of Franklin Roosevelt Legacy Democratic Club FRLDC
  • Cody Jones, Vice-President of FRLDC, L.A. County Democrat of the Year 2006
Position Papers
To: LaRouche Democrats running for Alameda County Central Committee, 16th AD
Endorsement by Civil Rights leader Amelia B. Robinson
 
Campaign Contact Information
Website: http://www.smartvoter.org/vote/Ian_Overton
E-mail: ianmko@gmail.com

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